I am an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the mathematics department at Harvard. My postdoctoral mentor is Joe Harris. I got my PhD from UC Berkeley in 2012, advised by Bernd Sturmfels. I am interested in combinatorics and algebraic geometry, particularly tropical geometry.

Here is my CV and research statement.

Teaching

• Math 285y, Tropical geometry, Spring 2013
  Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30-1:00 Science Center Room 222

• Math 233a, Theory of schemes, Fall 2012
  Syllabus (pdf)    Problem sets

Papers

• Tropical Teichmüller and Siegel spaces
  with M. Melo and F. Viviani.
  To appear in Proceedings of the CIEM workshop in tropical geometry.

• Tropical curves and metric graphs
  Ph.D. dissertation, 107 pages, 2012.

• Elliptic curves in honeycomb form
  with B. Sturmfels.
  To appear in Proceedings of the CIEM workshop in tropical geometry.
  Supplementary materials and computations

• Tropical hyperelliptic curves
  Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics Volume 37, Issue 2 (2013), 331-359.
  Slides
  

• Combinatorics of the tropical Torelli map
  Algebra and Number Theory 6 (6) (2012) 1133-1169.
  Slides     Pictures of tropical M_g

• Three notions of tropical rank for symmetric matrices
  with D. Cartwright.
  Combinatorica 32 (1) (2012) 55-84.
  Slides     Extended abstract

• The 4x4 minors of a 5xn matrix are a tropical basis
  with A. N. Jensen and E. Rubei.
  Linear Algebra and its Applications 435 (2011) 1598-1611.
  Slides

• The distinguishing number of the augmented cube and hypercube powers
  Discrete Mathematics, Volume 308, Issue 11 (2008), 2330-2336.

• Improved pebbling bounds
  with A. Godbole.
  Discrete Mathematics, Volume 308, Issue 11 (2008), 2301-2306.

• The distinguishing number of the direct product and wreath product action
  Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 24 (3) (2006) 331-345.

• The maximum distinguishing number of a group
  Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 13 (1) (2006) R70.

• Stably computable properties of network graphs
  with D. Angluin, J. Aspnes, M. J. Fischer, H. Jiang, R. Peralta
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 3560 (2005) 63-74.

Expository and other writings

• A survey of cluster algebras
  11 pages, 2010

• Tropical decomposition of symmetric tensors
  17 pages, 2008

• A survey of the cycle double cover conjecture
  10 pages, 2007

Miscellaneous

• I organized the student seminar in discrete mathematics with Felipe Rincón in 2010-2011.

• Here is my author listing on MathSciNet.